St James Infirmary chords by Arlo Guthrie

• Capo on 2nd

Key: Bm

Instrumental Verse :
                 Am     E7
 E |--------------------------|--0--0--------0-----------|
 B |--------------------1--3--|-----------1-----3--------|
 G |--------------------------|-----------------------0--|
 D |--------------------------|--------2-----------2-----|
 A |--------------------------|--0-----------------------|
 E |--------------------------|--------------0-----------|
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
    Am             Am     Fmaj7
 E |-----------------------0--|--0--0--------5--3-----0--|
 B |--1-----------------------|--------------------------|
 G |-----2--------------------|--------------------5-----|
 D |--------2-----------2-----|--------2-----3-----------|
 A |--0-----------------------|--0-----------------------|
 E |--------------0-----------|--------------------------|
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
    C      E7       Am     E7
 E |-----------------0-----0--|--5--0-----0--0-----------|
 B |--------------------------|--------1-----------3-----|
 G |--------------------------|--------------------------|
 D |--------2-----------2-----|--------------------------|
 A |--3-----------2-----------|--0-----------3-----2-----|
 E |--------------------------|--------------------------|
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
    Am     Am/G      Fmaj7    E7
 E |--------------------------|--------------------------|
 B |--1--------------1--------|--1--1--------0-----------|
 G |-----2-----------------0--|-----------2-----1-----2--|
 D |--------2-----------2-----|--------3-----------2-----|
 A |--0-----------------------|--------------------------|
 E |--------------3-----------|--1-----------0-----------|
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
    Am
 E |--------------------------|
 B |--------------------------|
 G |--------------------------|
 D |--------2----------2------|
 A |--0-----------------------|
 E |--------------0-----------|
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

    Am   E7   Am
It was down at old Joe's bar room
    Am     Fmaj7 C    E7
At the corner   by the square
     Am   E7    Am    Am/G
They were serving drinks as usual
    Fmaj7     E7      Am
And the usual     crowd was there
   Am     E7     Am
On my left stood big Joe MacKennedy
  Am     Fmaj7    C    E7
His eyes were bloodshot   red
      Am      E7     Am  Am/G
And as he looked at the gang around him
   Fmaj7     E7     Am
These were the very words he said.
    Am   E7    Am
I went down to St. James Infirmary
Am      Fmaj7     C  E7
   I saw my baby     there
     Am    E7     Am  Am/G
Stretched out on a long, white table
  Fmaj7    E7   Am
So young, so  cold, so fair
Am       E7     Am
   Seventeen coal-black horses
Am      Fmaj7    C  E7
Hitched to a rubber-tied hack
 Am     E7      Am    Am/G
Seven girls goin' to the graveyard
   Fmaj7      E7   Am
Only six of them are coming back
    Am     E7       Am
Let her go. Let her go, God bless her
Am     Fmaj7    C    E7
  Wherever she may   be
     Am    E7     Am     Am/G
She may search this wide world over
     Fmaj7    E7    Am
And never find another man like me


Am    E7     Am
 When I die just bury me
Am   Fmaj7      C  E7
 In my high-top Stetson hat
    Am      E7        Am    Am/G
Place a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
      Fmaj7    E7      Am
To let the Lord know I died standing pat
    Am        E7   Am
I want six crap-shooters for my pallbearers
 Am       Fmaj7    C   E7
A Chorus girl to sing me a  song
    Am      E7    Am  Am/G
Place a jazz band on my hearse wagon
  Fmaj7      E7    Am
To raise hell as we roll along
Am        E7    Am
 Now that you've heard my story
Am         Fmaj7     C  E7
 I'll take another shot of    booze
Am       E7    Am    Am/G
 And if anyone here should ask you
Fmaj7     E7    Am
 I've got the gambler's blues

Outro:
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